Philadelphia Community Podcast
Each week, Loraine Ballard Morrill speaks to community leaders and groups in the Philadelphia region about topics affecting our local communities and upcoming events. Insight airs Sunday on WDAS FM 6-7 am and 7-7:30 am on Power 99. What's Going On airs Sundays on Q102, ALT 104.5, and 1480 Breakthrough Radio.
Episodes
May 10, 2024 • 10 mins
I chat with a remarkable young woman who along with friends at her high school started a project to ship books and computers to an under resourced community in Zambia. Fast forward to 2024 20 years later and Julie-Anne Savarit-Cosenza, Co-founder & Executive Director, African Education Program is now running a program that serves over 4000 children youth and women. It’s an inspiring story making a dream become reality. This y...
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May 10, 2024 • 16 mins
I speak to talk to Suave Gonzalez, a former juvenile lifer who not only won a Pulitzer prize but is going on tour with Never Give Up Tour at the Perelman Theater on May 30, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. Gonzalez will offer an empowering message of resilience, personal growth and culture-focused activism. I also speak to musician Joey DeVille and former corrections officer and returning citizen Rasheeda Highland who join Suave on tour.
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May 10, 2024 • 30 mins
I speak to talk to Suave Gonzalez, a former juvenile lifer who not only won a Pulitzer prize but is going on tour with Never Give Up Tour at the Perelman Theater on May 30, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. Gonzalez will offer an empowering message of resilience, personal growth and culture-focused activism. I also speak to musician Joey DeVille and former corrections officer and returning citizen Rasheeda Highland who join Suave on tour. Ensembl...
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May 10, 2024 • 29 mins
I speak to talk to Suave Gonzalez, a former juvenile lifer who not only won a Pulitzer prize but is going on tour with Never Give Up Tour at the Perelman Theater on May 30, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. Gonzalez will offer an empowering message of resilience, personal growth and culture-focused activism. I also speak to musician Joey DeVille and former corrections officer and returning citizen Rasheeda Highland who join Suave on tour. Ensembl...
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May 10, 2024 • 10 mins
Mural Arts Philadelphia is the nation’s largest public art program, dedicated to the belief that art ignites change. I speak to Chad Eric Smith, Senior Director of Communications and Brand Management for Mural Arts about the organization celebrating 40 years of work empowering people, stimulating dialogue, and building bridges to mutual understanding through projects that attract artists from Philadelphia and around the world and ...
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May 4, 2024 • 29 mins
I’m a strong believer in redemption because as I often say – every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. That’s why I devote so much time to addressing criminal justice and reform. I’ve spent many years working with lifers first at Graterford and then at SCI Phoenix where I’ve met some extraordinary men. Some are out like former juvenile lifers Pulitzer Prize winner Suave Gonzalez or Gani who has devoted his life to wor...
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May 4, 2024 • 29 mins
I’m a strong believer in redemption because as I often say – every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. That’s why I devote so much time to addressing criminal justice and reform. I’ve spent many years working with lifers first at Graterford and then at SCI Phoenix where I’ve met some extraordinary men. Some are out like former juvenile lifers Pulitzer Prize winner Suave Gonzalez or Gani who has devoted his life to wor...
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May 4, 2024 • 10 mins
Guest host Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati speaks to Vikki Tobak, Guest Curator of the exhibit ICE COLD: AN EXHIBITION OF HIP-HOP JEWELRY at The American Museum of Natural History VIKKI TOBAK is an author, journalist, and curator. She is the author of critically acclaimed books CONTACT HIGH: A VISUAL HISTORY OF HIP-HOP (Clarkson Potter/Random House), 2018); ICE COLD: A HIP-HOP JEWELRY HISTORY (Taschen 2022) and The Streets Win (Rizzoli 202...
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April 25, 2024 • 29 mins
The DELCO Foundation is hosting Delco Gives Day – a 24-hour day of giving which kicks off May 8th at 7:00 p.m. and wraps up at 7:00 p.m. on May 9th. I speak to Frances M. Sheehan, President, The Foundation for Delaware County about the event and the work of the Foundation to support local organizations providing critical services and resources for the community.
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April 25, 2024 • 29 mins
Sunday April 28th I’ll be joining thousands at the Philadelphia Navy Yard for the 2024 Gift of Life Donor Dash to raise awareness about the critical importance of organ donation. I speak to Philadephia hit performing artist Freeway who will be there and who shares his experience as not only a kidney transplant recipient but also a donor parent whose late son provided four people with lifesaving organs. Gift of Life Donor Dash takes...
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April 25, 2024 • 11 mins
The DELCO Foundation is hosting Delco Gives Day – a 24-hour day of giving which kicks off May 8th at 7:00 p.m. and wraps up at 7:00 p.m. on May 9th. I speak to Frances M. Sheehan, President, The Foundation for Delaware County about the event and the work of the Foundation to support local organizations providing critical services and resources for the community.
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April 20, 2024 • 30 mins
When it comes to HIV and AIDS, we can get to zero infections, zero deaths and zero stigma. at the beginning of this pandemic - that hope seemed impossible but with the advent of new drugs that greatly reduce the chance of HIV infection among the sexually active - maybe this dream is possible through the use of PrEP – a regular treatment that reduces the risk of HIV up to 99 percent. I speak to local musician Sug Daniels who is supp...
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April 20, 2024 • 30 mins
I speak to Bakari Sellers the author of The Moment -Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn’t and How We Can All Move Forward Now. The book examines the modern political landscape and explores the forces at work to undermine civil rights gains over the past fifty years and offers solutions for a better tomorrow. Sellers will be speaking at Philadelphia Free Library on Thursday at 7:30PM April 25th.
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April 20, 2024 • 11 mins
I talk to Jenne Johns who has created a nonprofit, Once Upon a Preemie to address the health disparities black families face when a child is born prematurely. www.onceuponapreemie.org @onceapreemie (IG) once-upon-a-preemie-academy (LI) @onceuponapreemie (FB)
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April 13, 2024 • 34 mins
One of my favorite youth development programs is the Boys and Girls Clubs of Philadelphia. I speak to Lisbeth Marziello, President and CEO of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Philadelphia and Ariel Goldring - Executive Vice President Strategic support training and systematic Development about the organization’s programs and their upcoming Coaches Private Reserve Dinner April 25th.
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April 13, 2024 • 31 mins
On May 4th, The Hey Girl! Conference creates space and opportunity for women to belong by providing a community of women who bare their most vulnerable thoughts and experiences.” In sharing ourselves, we cultivate healing from within and for others that provides the foundation for us to be our authentic selves.” I speak to Cassandra Burnett, founder of the Hey Girl! Conference, Summer Willow-Fitch a senior partner/Principal of KAB...
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I talk to Carolyn Sims Nesmith, Founder/Director of CSN Productions which is hosting at. Meet and Greet for the Youth Performing Arts Program: Musical Theater Camp, on Saturday, April 20, 2024, 12 to 2 p.m. at CSN Productions, 3510 Scotts Lane, #3015A in the East Falls section of Philly. The program is six weeks and runs from July 8 through August 16th. Registration deadline is June 10. www.csnproductions.com info@csnproductions....
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April 6, 2024 • 14 mins
Media coverage of gun violence can do more harm than good and retraumatize survivors and their family and friends. I speak to Jim MacMillian and Oronde McClain from the Philadephia Center for Gun Violence Reporting about the Philadelphia premiere of a powerful documentary “The Second Trauma” what shows the harmful effects of episodic gun violence and how the media can do better. The event takes place April 17th at 7 pm at the Te...
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Think college isn’t for you. Think you can’t afford it? Consider Community College of Philadelphia which will close down 17th Street between Spring Garden and Callowhill Streets for a big block party with food, music, swag and more to announce the new college brand. I speak to Dr. Shannon Rooney, Vice President of Enrollment Management and Strategic Communications, Community College of Philadelphia. www.ccp.edu
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Think college isn’t for you. Think you can’t afford it? Consider Community College of Philadelphia which will close down 17th Street between Spring Garden and Callowhill Streets for a big block party with food, music, swag and more to announce the new college brand. I speak to Dr. Shannon Rooney, Vice President of Enrollment Management and Strategic Communications, Community College of Philadelphia. www.ccp.edu
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